Competition Rising Star Award Season 32 - Rookie Gun of the Season - You feeling lucky?

[Metalcrusher]

CursingFijian pretends he is a nice guy occasionally

One swallow does not maketh a BJ ...

 

[Brenton Davy]

CursingFijian pretends he is a nice guy occasionally

Careful!

There might be another prank here!!!

 

[Dingster]

But Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever is a forward.

Oie I see you in my centre position Padawan.

Grats Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever but if you don't get a kick on Sunday you will feel my ire.

 

[krakouers]

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The home and away season has come and gone, now it is time to see which rookies performed the best on the qooty field. Firstly we are going to look at the 4 players that will fill the final spots on the rookie gun team for season 32.

Final 4 spots

Brunswick Trap King
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Was on the gun nominee list 4 times this season, including 3 of those back-to-back-to-back in an incredible display of consistency. Averaged just under 14.5 disposals per game as well as kicking 1.5 goals per game. On-field* Brunswick was the best possible player a club could hope for.​

*on-field does not include off-field (I will touch on this a little later on)​

Soggy2112
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Also on the gun nominee list 4 times, soggy was very unlucky to miss out on a GunNomTM this season. After moving to the centre position, soggy played as well as anyone, averaging 73 DT and 21 disposals per game. Was better overall throughout the season than some of the other players already on the gun team, so it is an easy call to make to put soggy in the team.


Snuffaluphagus
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Was overlooked 4 times throughout the season on the gun nominee list, but has finally been rewarded for a great debut season. Started at half-forward and remained there for the entirety of the season. Averaged over 13 disposals and 1 goal a game, Snuff was a great asset to the Warriors forward line. A worthy addition to the S32 rookie gun team.


terrybull
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Another very unlucky player to have been on the nominee list 4 times yet didn't come out with a gun nomination. Terrybull's nominees however were far more spread out with their first occurring in round 3 and their last in round 13. Kicking just over a goal a game for the season, terrybull was a versatile asset for the Bears who was used just about everywhere on the qooty field. A great asset for any team especially one as inexperienced as the rookie gun team.



The Team

B: Engimal v3 (GCR) - Ticky009 (SCS) - mike ross (SCS)
HB: darthmann (SCS) - ImissFrosty (FUR) - thewizardmelon (ESP)
C: krakouers85 (GCR) - hotchilli (ROY) - Bluelegs (MBD)
HF: Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever (ROY) - Dory_77 (GUM) - HirdsTheWord (SCS)
F: TheTick (LVB) - Brunswick Trap King (FUR) - Snuffaluphagus (CIW)

FOLL: CursingFijian (BOM) - Brenton Davy (WON) - Electronic_Renaissance (LVB)

INT: Soggy2112 (WON) - terrybull (LVB)​

SFA Teams: 4 - Sin City Swamprats 3 - Las Vegas Bears 2 - West Coast Wonders, Roys FFC, Fighting Furies, Gold City Royals 1 - East Side Phoenix, Gumbies FFC, Mount Buller Demons, Baghdad Bombers, Coney Island Warriors 0 - Dragons FFC

Now onto the top 3 and winner of the Rookie Gun of Season 32​

To remind everyone of the rules: For a player/poster to be eligible for winning the rookie gun award they must have won a GunNomTM during the season and played all home and away games during the season (this season was 16 games).

First lets look at the poster that should've won the S32 gun of the season award, but was too lazy to post in match threads in order to get a GunNomTM
Brunswick Trap King

Was a deadset gun on the half forward flank for the Fighting Furies. Best Half Forward in the competition and would've been a shoe in for the rookie gun award if he just posted in match threads during his good weeks, and there were plenty of chances so he has no one to blame but himself. It's just disappointing to see such a great on-field rookie season go to waste.


3RD
krakouers85
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Missing out on 2nd place by just 13 dreamteam points is krakouers. Being one of the fast-starting rookies, krakouers got out early in the season to achieve a gun nomination in just their second game. Even more impressive is that krakouers was able to maintain and even improve on their performances as the season went along. Gathering 21.8 disposals per game and acquiring the most marks of any player this season is a great feat for a rookie in their first season. If krakouers improves on their skills over the off-season then the competition better watch out.

2ND
Bluelegs
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Just beating krakouers by the smallest of margins, Bluelegs finishes 2nd in a brilliant debut season. Gathering over 22 disposals per game is very impressive for anyone to achieve over an entire season, but to do it in your debut season is even more so. Bluelegs was able to equal the highest disposals getter this season (spookism ) as well as tackle more times than anyone else on the wing with 32 tackles (2 per game). Bluelegs was everywhere on the field and has a massive motor to run all game long. Very stiff to just miss out on the rookie gun by a very small margin, but he still has to be applauded for a fantastic debut season.

1ST
Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever
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The Winner of the Season 32 Rookie Gun is Cats underscore R underscore... god why is this name so long? Anyway, Cats had a tremendous season on the half-forward flank. Her stats were off the charts, gathering 13.8 disposals per game and kicking over 1 and a half goals a game. She was also a massive aerial threat to the opposition, grabbing 5 marks a game. One of the most damaging forwards in the competition this season and a worthy winner of the Rookie Gun.

Congratulations Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever
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#RECOUNT
Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever congrats, losing to you is fine… no it’s not

Bluelegs thought I had you until krakouers40dispgame.exe didn’t load properly, look forward to seeing our match up next year

 

[GremioPower]

Congratulations, Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever, Bluelegs, and krakouers85! Well deserved.

But qooty is a team sport, and a group of rookies have excelled this year like no other:

SFA Teams: 4 - Sin City Swamprats

Congratulations, philreich and the S32 Rats rookie crop!

 

[jackster83]

Well done to Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever and all the placegetters.

Was a seriously good crop of rookies this season. We're very bullish about our rookies at the Rats.

Finally, well done to DockerDen5215 - it was not that long ago that you were a rookie yourself.

 

[GremioPower]

Finally, well done to @DockerDen5215 - it was not that long ago that you were a rookie yourself.

DockerDen5215 is running the Rising Star, so that was… (check notes) last season!

 

[Kilroy]

DockerDen5215 is running the Rising Star, so that was… (check notes) last season!

There is a Rising Star committee supporting DockerDen5215 and GREENESHOOTS in S32.

GREENESHOOTS has recently been seconded to work on the EKA, so the committee, including DockerDen5215, GWS Goose, myself and a host of others, will continue to produce the Rising Star commentary, awards and the event itself.

More details will follow shortly when voting is concluded.

Congratulations to Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever Bluelegs and krakouers85 on their placings in the Gun Award.

Great work on the Gun DockerDen5215 and many thanks to GREENESHOOTS for all his work on the Torch Award.

 

[Chipmunk]

Rising Star night is one of the most fun nights of the season. Looking forward to it.

 

[thewizardmelon]

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